Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:22:40PM +1100, Igor Cicimov wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask: I suspect this is related to

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-16 Thread Tom Roche
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00679.html On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get errors beginning with Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount. and ending (just before it goes to X) with many (10 n 100) lines beginning with

startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Tom Roche
What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask: Awhile ago, I got a new box with win7 preinstalled. I repartitioned, adding separate partitions for swap, /, /boot, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var (in addition to the win7

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:47:12 -0500 Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask: Awhile ago, I got a new box with win7 preinstalled. I repartitioned, adding separate

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: I suspect this is related to having a separate /var partition, since, once the box is booted and I'm logged in, I see that Yes, it is related. A known issue for the transition. While I know this from Arch Linux I found a link in German regarding to Debian: The Germany words describe

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: What must one do to make /run mount appropriately on startup if one has a separate /var partition? What I mean, why I ask: Awhile ago, I got a new box with win7 preinstalled. I repartitioned, adding separate partitions

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:22:40 +1100 Igor Cicimov icici...@gmail.com wrote: Since /run is meant to replace all temporary filesystems in RAM I would expect this to be other way around, ie /var/run to be symlinked to /run. So /run should be a tmpfs and /run/shm and /run/lock part of it. Also

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Tom Roche
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00679.html On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get errors beginning with Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount. and ending (just before it goes to X) with many (10 n 100) lines beginning with

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00679.html On every startup, on the initial {black screen, white text} I get errors beginning with Mount point '/run' does not exist. Skipping mount. and ending (just

Re: startup: separate /var partition hoses /run, shm (shared memory)?

2012-11-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
You're quasi running Sid, this explains that you could run into trouble. Some software does expect: spinymouse@qrc:~$ df -hl | grep run tmpfs 741M 944K 740M 1% /run none5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /run/shm none100M